St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-19

ard will be able to make a goodly sum
in perquiSiteS without dishonesty. He
can increase his salary by the percent
ages which meat dealers, grocers and
other tradesmen are but too happy to
allow him in order to obtain and retain
the hotels custom, which is only to be
procured through him.
A chef receives from 800 to $500 Der
month; his assistants from $50 to $3.50.
A good storekeeper is paid from $40 to
S15: head-waiter, from $50 to $50: wait
ers, $50 to $50; dishwashers. SIS: engi-
neer, S15 to 800; assistant engineers,
$50 to SIS; firemen, $50 to S45; yardman,
S25.
In the office, the chief clerk NAV re-
! ceive as much as $500 per month. but
| 800 is nearer the average. His assist
ants are graded from $40 to S15. and the
bOokkeeper and cashier will probably
get 800. The bell-boys and elevator
boys receive from So to $50 each: the
| porterS, from S25 to $40; the watchmen
| the same.
The hOuSekeeper is usually an elderly
! woman of some capacity, and will re-
ceive from $50 to 800 per- month. The
linen-rOom girl, who is also a seams
tress. and who has generally risen from
the ranks, gets from S25 to $50: the
chambermaids and scrub-women from
So to SIS; the laundresseS from SIG to
$40.
The service of hotel is like nothing
so much as huge army. The prOprie-
tor, generalissimo; the steward, chief
of staff, cOmmissary and quartermaster;
the chief clerk, adjutant and aid-de-
camp. In several houses in New York
the force numbers over 800 people.
The american plan'' house is, out
side nf tho l1rUpJ nitinc no
merouS. By this plan the custom is to
set certain number of meals in the
dining room daily, the charge per day
giving the guest the right to partake of
as many of them as he chooses. The
European plan, so-called, is the term
applied to those hotels which predom-
mate in the Eastern cities, and which
are fast gaining Roadway throughout
the country, where rooms are rented
with gas, service, ETC., and where
you are at liberty to order
your meals a la carte either in the res
taurant attached to the house, or at any
other place you choose. In regard to
these different plans each has its adj
vantageS. If the man be good feeder
he ought certainly to live on the Amer
lean plan. 1t is a great saving to him
self. Ii. on the contrary, his appetite
is like BIRDS" and he doesn't care to
have anything heavier than milk and
mush for breakfast, he will find the
European plan advantageous.
Even in the average hosiery of 800
rooms the uninitiated can have no con-
ceptiOn of the amount of food required
to feed its guests. Anticipated patrons
may not materialiZe, but ample prOviS-
ion must be made just the same to pro-
tect the house in case of emergency. A
fair yearly average would be about as
follows:
Beef, 100000 lbs; mutton and lamb,
$1,000 lbs; cOrned beef, 10000 lbs; veal,
$1,000 lbs; ham, bacon and tongue, $4,000
lbs; fresh pork, 10000 lbs; poultry 10000
lbs: flour, 400 barrels; sugar, 100 barrels:
coffee, 6,C00 lbs; tea, 1,500 lbs; milk and
cream, 1900 gallons, butter, coo lbs;
oysters and CLANS, 100000; potatoes, 500
bushels: tomatoes, 100 bushels and 5000
cans; corn, 5000 dozen ears and 5000
cans. In addition to these there are in
Vulnerable vegetables and extras which
amount TO about One-tenth as much
again. Coal will average from ten to
twenty tons weekly in summer, and
from twenty to fifty tons per week dur
ing the winter months. The quantity of
ice used throughout the year will aver
age 800 tons.
Should the ambitious young man de-
sire to start in the hotel business, all he
needs is the capitalize experience
will come soon enough. A moderate
sized hotel may be rented furnished i'll
most cities for $4,000 or ST., 900 per
year; if there is an established trade
and the house is favorably and widely
known, it will be higher. Location and
accessibility are the two important fact
OrS in success, and the tone of the house
must be modelled to fit the class of trade
which is expected. If it is intended
to cater to family business, the To-
cation should be in quiet neighbour
hood. and the bar and billiard room
should be adjunctS to the hotel-instead
of the hotel being an adjunct to them,
as is usually the case i'll commercial
travellers house.
A capable steward is the prime requi-
site-one that understands keeping a
few dozen oyster shells iii bucket of
cold water, and using them as the re-
ceptacle of the little shriveled canned
oyster when an order is received for
''Oysters on the half-shell."
Then let the neOphyte shake off all
care and attend to the front of the
house." Let him receive guests in such
manner that they may feel or imagine
their importance. Let him be careful
governor or colonel" Let him ac-
cept the invitation of every one who
mods toward the bar and requests
to know the nature of his par
tlcular poison, and above all
let him reciprOcate the attention in
kind. He may, perhaps, occasionally
undergo that operation which is popu-
larly known as being ''done up'' by
some stranger who is vehement i'll his
assurances of friendship, but the said
stranger will execute this little affair in
such mastery style that ten to one the
landlord will feel that he has been
really placed under an obligation.
After doing all in his power to render
himself popular and enviable let him
paste in his hat the motto, "Dum vivi-
mus vivamus," and stick in conspicu-
Gus place III the office, the device PAY
as you go. If you don't pay, don't 90.
You will be assisted by the porter and
if the fowl of success don't perch on the
highest pinnacle of the Office-clock, it
can only be said that he wasn't built for
a hotel man. X. MACKNIGHT.
OFFICIAL,